OpenAI has brought back former alignment research lead Paul Christiano into its board structure, according to BlockBeats. Christiano, who led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021 and helped lay the groundwork for reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF, has joined the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee. He has also entered the board of the for-profit OpenAI Group as an observer. After taking the role, Christiano publicly named OpenAI in a warning about AI risk. He said automated AI research could soon accelerate model capabilities rapidly, and argued that if superintelligence is built before the alignment problem is solved, humanity could permanently lose control. In that scenario, he said, "most people could die." Christiano also said the broader AI industry, including OpenAI, has not reduced that risk to an acceptable level.
OpenAI has brought back former alignment research lead Paul Christiano into its board structure, according to BlockBeats. Christiano has joined the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee, and he has also entered the board of the for-profit OpenAI Group as an observer.
Background at OpenAI and RLHF
Christiano led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021 and helped lay the groundwork for reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF. After leaving OpenAI, he founded the Alignment Research Center.
Warning issued after taking the role
In a public statement after taking the position, Christiano directly named OpenAI. He said automated AI research could soon cause model capabilities to accelerate quickly. If superintelligence is built before alignment is solved, humanity could permanently lose control, and in that case, "most people could die."
He also said the AI industry as a whole, including OpenAI, has not reduced that risk to an acceptable level.
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